19th-century births •
Edward Arber (1836–1912), scholar, writer and editor •
Marcus Beresford (1818–1890),
Conservative Party politician and
Colonel in the 7th Surrey Rifle Volunteers •
J. D. Casswell,
QC (1886–1963), barrister •
Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1819–1899), oriental scholar •
George Devey (1820–1886), architect •
Arthur Cayley (1821–1895), mathematician •
William Ince (1825–1910),
Regius Professor of Divinity in the
University of Oxford •
Jacob Wrey Mould (1825–1886), architect, renowned for designing
Central Park •
Alfred Barry (1826–1910),
Anglican Archbishop of Sydney •
William Burges (1827–1881), Victorian art-architect •
George William Kitchin (1827–1912), theologian and the first
Chancellor of the University of Durham •
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882),
Pre-Raphaelite painter •
Edward Dutton Cook (1829–1883), dramatic critic and author •
Henry Parry Liddon (1829–1890), theologian •
Algernon Borthwick, 1st Baron Glenesk (1830–1908), journalist and
Conservative Party politician •
Charles Harbord, 5th Baron Suffield (1830–1914),
Liberal Party peer and
Master of the Buckhounds •
Henry Kingsley (1830–1876), novelist •
Frederic Harrison (1831–1923), jurist and historian •
Henry Jones (1831–1899), writer and authority on tennis and card games, instrumental in establishing the
Wimbledon Tennis Championships •
Henry Fawcett (1833–1884), British economist, statesman, academic and campaigner for women's suffrage. •
Felix Stone Moscheles (1833–1917), painter, peace activist and advocate of
Esperanto •
Sabine Baring-Gould (1834–1924), Hagiographer, antiquarian and hymn writer, the best known of which is
Onward, Christian Soldiers •
William Henry Preece (1834–1913), electrical engineer •
William Grantham (1835–1911),
Conservative Party politician and High Court Judge •
Walter William Skeat (1835–1912), philologist •
Charles Dickens Jr. (1837–1896), geographic dictionary compiler, and son of the author
Charles Dickens •
John Festing (1837–1902),
Bishop of St. Albans •
Sidney Godolphin Alexander Shippard (1838–1902), British colonial administrator •
Edward Robert Festing (1839–1912), Army officer and first Director of
The Science Museum •
Ingram Bywater (1840–1914), classical scholar •
Alfred de Rothschild (1842–1918), Director of the
Bank of England •
Richard Webster, 1st Viscount Alverstone (1842–1915),
Attorney-General, barrister and
Conservative Party politician •
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer (1843–1928), director of the
Royal Botanic Gardens •
William P. Treloar (1843–1923),
Lord Mayor of London •
William Christie (1845–1922),
Astronomer Royal •
Leopold de Rothschild (1845–1917), banker and thoroughbred race horse breeder •
George Saintsbury (1845–1933), writer and critic •
Henry Sweet (1845–1912), philologist •
Henry Kemble (1848–1907), actor and member of the famed
Kemble family •
John Milne (1849–1913), geologist and mining engineer •
James Drake (1850–1941), Australian politician •
Frederic Henry Chase (1853–1925), academic and
Bishop of Ely •
Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner (1854–1925),
Liberal Party statesman and colonial administrator •
Gordon Smith (1856–1905), barrister and
philatelist •
Andrew Watson (1856–1921), the world's first black association football player to play at international level and Captained Scotland to a 6-1 victory against England. •
Sidney Low (1857–1932), journalist and historian •
Richard Kendall-Norris (1859–1921),
Conservative Party politician and businessman •
Sir Jeremiah Colman, 1st Baronet (1859–1942), industrialist, Chairman of
Colman's Mustard •
Walter Sickert (1860–1942), English
Impressionist painter, suspected of being
Jack the Ripper •
James Edward Edmonds (1861–1956), official British historian of
World War I •
Reginald McKenna (1863–1943),
Home Secretary and
Chancellor of the Exchequer •
John Martin-Harvey (1863–1944), actor •
George Hillyard (1864–1943), tennis player, Olympic gold medallist, Middlesex cricketer and naval officer •
Charles Sanford Terry (1864–1936), historian and musicologist •
Ernest Starling (1866–1927), physiologist, discovered
hormones, developed the
'law of the heart', and involved in the
Brown Dog Affair •
Rowland Blades, 1st Baron Ebbisham (1868–1953),
Conservative Party politician and
Lord Mayor of London •
Lynwood Palmer (1868–1941), painter of racehorses and carriage horses. •
Skinner Turner (1868–1935), Chief Judge of the
British Supreme Court for China •
George Holt Thomas (1869–1929), aviation pioneer and founder of
Imperial Airways •
Percy Newberry (1869–1949),
Egyptologist, introduced
Howard Carter to Egypt, and served on staff
Tutankhamun excavations •
Frederick Field (Royal Navy officer), (1871–1945),
First Sea Lord •
Henry Poole (1873–1928), sculptor •
Ellis Martin (1881–1977), map cover illustrator for
Ordnance Survey •
John Barrymore (1882–1942), actor and member of the famed
Barrymore family •
Walter Layton, 1st Baron Layton (1884–1966), statesman and editor •
Gilbert Szlumper (1884–1969), general manager of the
Southern Railway •
Henry Monck-Mason Moore (1887–1964), British governor of
Sierra Leone,
Kenya and
Ceylon •
Victor Negus (1887–1974), laryngologist, surgeon and comparative anatomist •
Frederick Sowrey (1893–1968),
World War I flying ace •
Richard Walther Darré (1895–1953),
Nazi ideologist and long-serving
Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture •
Robert Graves (1895–1985), poet and novelist, who mentions his brief spell at the school in his autobiography
Goodbye to All That •
John G. Bennett (1897–1974), mathematician, scientist, technologist, industrial research director, and author •
Edwin Flavell (1898–1993), military commander
20th-century births •
Khalid Abdalla (1980–), actor and star of
United 93,
The Kite Runner and
Green Zone •
Leonard Addison (1902–1975),
British Indian Army officer •
Angus Allan (1936–2007), comic strip writer •
Clive Aslet (1955–), writer and former editor of
Country Life •
Robert Ayling (1946–), former
CEO of
British Airways •
Ben Barnes (1981–), actor and star of
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian and
Stardust •
Tom Basden (1981–), comedian •
James Binney (1950–), astrophysicist •
Andrew Black (1963–), founder of
Betfair, an internet betting exchange •
Sir Cyril Black (1902–1991),
MP and financier •
Sir James Bottomley (1920–2013), diplomat •
Tom Browne (1945–), broadcaster and actor •
Raymond Buckland (1934–2017), author •
Roger Casale (1960–),
MP for Wimbledon •
Christopher Challis (1919–2012), cinematographer •
Sir Neil Chalmers (1942–), former director of the
Natural History Museum •
John Cloake (1924–2014), former ambassador of the United Kingdom to Bulgaria •
Sam Coates (1978–), journalist •
Sir Ralph Cusack (1916–1978),
High Court judge •
Sir John Vivian Dacie (1912–2005), haematologist •
Nick D'Aloisio (1995–), entrepreneur and youngest person to have raised VC funding in the world •
Guy de la Bédoyère (1957–), writer and broadcaster •
Nigel Don (1954–), SNP MSP for Angus North and Mearns •
Jimmy Edwards (1920–1988), 1950s British radio and television comedy actor •
George S. J. Faber (1959–), television producer •
Ed Gamble (1986–), comedian •
Sir Victor Goodhew (1919–2006), politician,
Conservative MP for
St Albans •
Anthony Gordon FMedSci (1969–), clinician scientist •
Nigel Green (1924–1972), actor •
Conal Gregory (1947–), politician,
MP for York •
Cifford Hall (1904–1973), painter •
The Right Reverend David Halsey (1919–2009), former
bishop of Carlisle •
Frank Robinson Hartley (1942–), chemist,
vice-chancellor Cranfield University 1989–2006 •
Rupert Hine (1947–2020), musician, former chairman of
The Ivor Novello Awards •
Robin Holloway (1943–), composer •
Peter Horrocks (1959–), former director of
BBC World Service •
David Hughes (1930–2005), novelist •
Ross Hutchins (1985–), professional tennis player •
Robert Jay (1959–), Counsel to the
Leveson Inquiry (2011–2012), and now High Court Judge •
William Joyce (1906–1946),
Nazi propagandist (as "
Lord Haw-Haw"), and
fascist politician •
Alvar Lidell (1908–1981),
BBC radio announcer •
Roger Lockyer (1927–2017), historian •
Ben Lovett (1987–), musician and member of the band
Mumford and Sons •
Mark Lowen (1982–),
BBC news correspondent •
John McLeod (1949-), card game researcher •
James Mitchell (1989–), professional poker player, took part in the
Irish Poker Open. •
Jonathan Montgomery (1962–), British legal scholar who specialises in health care law. •
Peter G. Moore (1928–2010), British soldier, actuary, academic and statistician •
Simon Conway Morris FRS (1951–), evolutionary
palaeobiologist •
Buster Mottram (1955–), professional tennis player, who achieved a highest world ranking of fifteenth. •
Marcus Mumford (1987–), musician and founder of the band
Mumford and Sons •
Andrew Hunter Murray (1987–),
QI,
Austentatious •
David Nokes (1948–2009), literary scholar and biographer •
Dudley Owen-Thomas (1948–), lawyer and former first-class cricketer •
Richard Pasco CBE (1926–2014), stage, screen and TV actor •
Roy Plomley (1914–1985), broadcaster and creator of the BBC radio programme
Desert Island Discs •
Andrew Powell (1949–), musician •
Gaby Rado (1955–2003), television journalist •
Sir Stephen Richards (1950–),
Appeal Court judge •
Prince Alexander Romanov (1929–2002), great nephew of the last Russian Emperor,
Nicholas II •
Joe Salisbury (1992–), professional tennis player •
Ronald A. Sandison (1916–2010), psychiatrist, pioneered the clinical use of
LSD in the UK. •
Michael Scott (1981–), classicist, author and broadcaster •
David Shaw (1950–2022), politician, former
MP for Dover •
Dan Smith (1986–), lead singer of indie band Bastille •
Andrew Stuart (1962–), mathematician •
Joby Talbot (1971–), composer •
Simon Treves (1957–), actor and writer •
Mark Urban (1961–), journalist, author & Diplomatic Editor of BBC's
Newsnight programme •
Stuart Urban (1959–), film and television director •
Chris van Tulleken (1978–), Doctor and TV presenter including
CBBC series
Operation Ouch! •
Xand van Tulleken (1978–), Doctor and TV presenter including
CBBC series
Operation Ouch! •
Donald Walker (1912–1941), first-class cricketer •
Patrick Wolf, né Patrick Apps (1983–), singer-songwriter •
Nadhim Zahawi (1967–),
MP for
Stratford-on-Avon 21st-century births •
Arthur Fery (2002–), professional tennis player
Victoria Cross holders Five Old King's have been awarded the
Victoria Cross. •
Mark Sever Bell,
Ashanti War, awarded the
Victoria Cross •
William George Cubitt,
Indian Mutiny, awarded the
Victoria Cross •
Philip Salkeld,
Indian Mutiny, awarded the
Victoria Cross •
Arthur Scarf,
World War II, awarded the
Victoria Cross •
Robert Haydon Shebbeare,
Indian Mutiny, awarded the
Victoria Cross == Notable governors ==